Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 22 October 1783
- Died
- 18 September 1840
- Works
- 111
Top works
- On two new salamanders of Kentucky
- Neogenyton
- Déterminaison de 6 n. esp. de sapins d'Oregon
- A monograph of the fluviatile bivalve shells of the river Ohio, containing twelve genera & sixty-eight species
- Continuation of a monograph of the bivalve shells of the river Ohio and other rivers of the western states
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,828x
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,334x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 12,959x
- Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans
· 1998 · cited 12,267x
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Key facts
- Born
- Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz , ( 1783-10-22 ) 22 October 1783, Galata , Constantinople , Ottoman Empire
- Died
- 18 September 1840 (1840-09-18) (aged 56), Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Fields
- Biologist
- Author abbrev botany
- Raf.
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Key dates
- Born
- 22 October 1783
- Died
- 18 September 1840
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Samuel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Constantinople
- Place of death
- Philadelphia
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- botany
- Image
- Rafinesque Constantine Samuel 1783-1840.png
Article
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz ( French pronunciation: [kɔ̃stɑ̃tin(ə) samɥɛl ʁafinɛsk(ə)ʃmalts]) (October 22, 1783 – September 18, 1840) was a French polymath of the early 19th century. Born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, he was self-educated in France.
As a young man, Rafinesque-Schmaltz traveled to the United States, eventually settling in Ohio in 1815. There, he made significant contributions to botany, zoology, and the study of prehistoric earthworks in North America. Beyond his previous extensive work in Europe, he also contributed to the study of ancient Mesoamerican linguistics. In 1836, Rafinesque was the first person to use the term Taíno as a way of referring to the Indigenous peoples of the Greater Antilles.